Genius of the Modern World

Season 1

2016 · 3 episodes · 3h 0m in all · 8.8/10

Episodes

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   1. Marx

   16 Jun 2016 · 60 min · 8.5/10

   Bettany begins her journey in the city of Trier on the banks of the Mosel in Germany. It was here on the 5 May 1818 that Karl Marx, one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century was born.

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   2. Nietzsche

   23 Jun 2016 · 60 min · 9.0/10

   Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.

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   3. Freud

   30 Jun 2016 · 60 min

   Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.